About us

When we meet again in the school – plans for crisis

We are Bambíno - international nurseries and kindergartens for children from 6 weeks to 7 years old.

History

Bambíno has been here for children since 2009; and has been accredited by the Ministry of Education since 2010.

Bambíno kindergarten was established by Lucie Pivoňková and Tomáš Trnka, because their previous work in development no longer satisfied them. So they tried to invent something meaningful, what would also be fun for others, and they established the first Bambino branch in Dejvice, Prague. They became bricklayers and painters for a while, in order to open a beautiful and modern kindergarten for the first few children in September 2009. Together with experts, they drew up their own educational programme “Big Things For Little People” and, as a result, achieved accreditation from the Ministry of Education. Once the kindergarten became full it proved the kindergarten concept prepared by them can be successful so they opened another branch in Vinohrady, Prague. But they have not stopped at the kindergarten stage because from the very beginning they wanted to continue with children’s education. Thus, Square Elementary School will continue this unique educational concept from September 2018.

Philosophy

We create a place that makes both the little and the big ones happy,
where the world of the little and the big ones is interconnected, from where the little and the big ones leave a little bigger.

We are not a kindergarten that simply “looks after” your children – we are people who consider your children ours and that is how we take care of them.

We are happy about their development, smiles and hugs. We don’t want to change the children, because every child is unique. We strive to find each one’s potential and develop it. Together we learn, play, conduct experiments, support each other and love each other but together we are looking for and setting boundaries. What’s more, while we develop children, we also look to develop ourselves.

What are parents saying about us?

Markéta Pazdírková

Adam´s mum

Bambíno made us very satisfied. Thank you for a very nice and friendly team; the evidence is that Adam was looking forward to his teachers and friends every day and he never wanted to go home in the evening.
Thanks to being well cared about in Bambíno, he also obtained unbelievable knowledge that sometimes makes me astonished.

Hana Vachutková

Alžběta´s mum

Our three years old daughter Alžběta has been attending Bambíno kindergarten for almost two years. We can count on a professional approach of all employees. We very appreciate a nice consistency to children but reasonable benevolence to us, working parents.

Veronika Manukjan

mum of Nikolas

We are very happy and proud that our son Nikolas attends the Bambino Kindergarten which, I think, is the best in Prague. He started to attend the nursery that he liked from the first moment and during one month he started to talk, then he get rid of his dummy and nappies and he has learned a lot of new things.
Every day I see something new at him that he had learned in the kindergarten and he likes to talk about it and show it to me. He also knows few English words.
I like the equipment of the kindergarten, that they have a special room for every activity: a music room, gym, creative art room, and playroom, bedroom for sleeping and beautiful beds. They also take care of animals and flowers here.
I can see a huge development at Nikolas and mainly, that he is always happy.
Also during weekends he tells us that he would like to go to the kindergarten where he likes it a lot.
I appreciate mainly nice teachers that I fully trust, I can see how they love all the children and they are dedicated to them fully / which is a feeling that I didn’t have at other kindergartens that I have seen/. They are learning also small children nice and good behaving, children are helping each other, they are learning and inspiring each other.
What is important for me is a various meals full of vegetables based on healthy nutrition, which is underestimated in other kindergartens, or they are cooking according to the habits of school dining rooms which is not good.
Every morning a driver picks up Nikolas at our home and takes him to the kindergarten and our son really likes this, every morning he is happy to wake up and he hurries up to Mr. Driver, it’s a daily routine. It is very helpful for us at morning organisation and leaving to work.
We are happy that we have Bambino!
Thank you!

OUR TEAM

We do our best when taking care of your/our children. Therefore, we carefully select our “big people”.

Our team consists of teachers – men and women, specialists (logopaedics, special pedagogics, psycho-social consultants), nurses, and since we are an international Czech-English kindergarten, naturally also native English speakers.

The whole Bambíno is handled by:

Lucie Pivoňková

director and co-owner

What animal did I want to have?
I really wanted a parrot. My parents even bought me one as a birthday present, his name was Alexander, but three months later, my cat crept into the cage and... whoops.

Lucie lived in London for 2 years, after finishing grammar school where she studied English and worked as an au-pair. In 2006, she graduated from the Master’s Program at the University in Pardubice with an emphasis on English language teaching. During her studies, she obtained a lot of experience in teaching pre-school and school-aged children. Up until 2008, she obtained management and client care experience. Since 2008, she has worked as an director of Bambíno, and newly takes care of the project of the Primary school Square.

Tomáš Trnka

co-owner

What did I like drawing most?
I liked drawing anything, until the first class. Then my teacher tore my Aurora and pulled my ears because I started with the sky. Fortunately, this teacher was replaced, so I started enjoying drawing again!

Before he started to devote his time to pre-school children, Tomáš had been working in the area of development as a sales and project manager. In 2005, he became a member of higher management in the developers’ group, where he was mainly in charge of PR and human resources. Since 2008, Tomáš has been devoted to the Bambino, newly also to the Primary school Square.

Alena Hauptmanová

special pedagogics and logopaedics

Did I like to sleep in the afternoons at kindergarten?
No. I was terribly bored and since we had to be quiet and at least pretend to be sleeping, I killed time by biting my pyjama buttons.

Alena has completed special pedagogy with specialization in learning disorders and speech therapy. For a long time, she has been engaged in intensive work with either disadvantaged or talented children. Within her leisure time activities and, especially, pedagogical advisory, she has been working on personal development both of children and adults. In Bambíno, she has been assisting in the complex development of children and in putting new educational methods into Bambíno practice. She likes theatre and music. She spends her leisure time travelling or devouring stories of any kind.

Sylvie Stretti

psychosocial consultant

What did I want to be when I was little?
For a long time, I wanted to be an astronaut or at least a fighter pilot. It was interchanging with my dream to become an archaeologist because I was keen on mummies.

For many years she has been working with children in different situations which include psycho-social fields, such as, development, crisis, family as well as therapeutic. For more than ten years she worked with children in crisis situations, she cooperated educationally for NNO, various firms and at Charles University here in Prague. At Bambíno she will participate in the creation of courses for teachers, which will help them solve difficult situations that children‘s groups can go through. She will also help with new ways of communication when children find themselves in a demanding transitional development period. Why Bambíno? Because this is a Kindergarten that is interested in the children and where children are viewed as a part of a family system. Because a child is a friend in Bambíno and because there are many nice people here.

Zuzana Sahligerová

economist and manager of educational projects

My favourite fairytale from childhood?
Disney's Cinderella. I watched it every weekend morning until the cassette was worn out. Twenty years later I received a DVD version as a birthday gift from my brother so I can watch it again and again.

Zuzka is from a family of teachers and since she was youg she has been interested in English. English is now one her main hobbies and she has tried it in various forms – from travelling, interpreting and translating through teaching up to managing a language school where she found that she enjoys working with children. After graduating from the University of Economics in Prague she moved back to Slovakia for a while. After returning to Prague she joined our team as a board assistant.

Bára Schneiderová

Project Coordinator

What did I learn in kindergarten?
In kindergarten, I learned not to eat snow. It can look beautiful and clean, though, but try to melt it down... ;)

She was born in Prague, where she also finished her study at the secondary grammar school and earned her Bachelor degree in sociology. Since 2010 she has been working in Bambíno as a temporary worker and she had a part-time job at the Safety Line for a few years. However, Bambíno has finally won and Bára has become its full-time employee as Manager of the Dejvice branch. Then she went to the maternity leave and after coming back to Bambíno she started to deal with various projects.

Written about us - in Czech

We also work on projects

Metodika pro předškoláky I

Metodika pro předškoláky II

Metodika pro předškoláky III

You find more articles in Czech on CZ version O nás

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